Panels-to-Pixels: X3

Recently, Activision rolled through the IGN offices to show off X-Men: The Official Movie Game. The title really says it all. Expected to ship for every console and handheld on the planet a week or two prior to the release of X-Men: The Last Stand, Activision's latest X-adventure serves as a bridge between X2 and X3. This is the only Official Movie Game, so don't be fooled and buy one of the unofficial knock-offs.

In X-Men: TOMG, you get the opportunity to play as three different Xers: Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Iceman. Each looks, feels and controls quite differently.

As comics fans know, it would be tough to find a trio of X-Men so different from one another than these three. Just how different? We'll break down all three characters to their essentials -- what you need to know most -- and show how their personalities and powers should make each a unique experience when you pick up TOMG this May (and you know you will, so just suck it up and accept it).